 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - Periodicals - 1888 - 800 pages
...golden pinions cleave the flitting skies like flying pursuivants." He believed in guardian angels: " They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their...us plant, And all for love and nothing for reward." The iconoclastic spirit of the English reformers wrought destruction not only to many priceless works... | |
 | Richard Hooker - Church polity - 1925 - 470 pages
...bred by the presence of his exemplary goodness, who ceaseth not before them daily to fill heaven 1 [" How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come...pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant 1 They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant, And... | |
 | Burris Jenkins - Bible - 1925 - 248 pages
...do the bidding of their Lord. Edmund Spenser, in the Faerie Queene has dainty lines regarding them : "How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come...oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skyes, like flying pursuivant, Against f owle f eendes to ayd us militant ! They for us fight, they... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...embrace, That blessed angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe ! How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come...oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skyes, like flying pursuivant, Against fowle feendes to ayd us militant ! They for us fight, they watch,... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - American poetry - 1925 - 490 pages
...sun,— To your face — with its wrinkled smile And its fun. THE MINISTERING SPIRITS BY EDMUND SPENSER How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come...us that succour want! , How oft do they with golden pineons cleave The flitting skyes, like flying Pursuivant, Against fowle feendes to ayd us militant!... | |
 | Walker Gwynne - Church year - 1915 - 168 pages
...Edmund Spenser writes: "How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succor us that succor want, How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The...like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us mill taut 1 They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - Literature - 1915 - 550 pages
...that succeeds opens with an angel hovering over him, and the general thought of angelic ministration: How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come...us that succour want! How oft do they with golden pineons cleave The flitting skyes, like flying Pursuivant, Against fowle feendes to aid us militant... | |
 | Paul Carus - Religion - 1927 - 830 pages
...And come to succor us that succour want ! How oft do they with shining pinions cleave The flirting skies, like flying Pursuivant Against foul fiends...us plant. And all for love and nothing for reward, O ! why should heavenly God to man have such regard?" The great hosts of angels are led by seven great... | |
 | American periodicals - 1851 - 644 pages
...the river hall, one * How oft cio they their silver bowers leave, To come to succor us. that sucenr want ! How oft do they, with golden pinions cleave...aid' us, militant! They for us fight ; they watch and dewly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant. And all for love, and nothing for reward... | |
 | Richard Hooker, John Keble, Richard William Church - 626 pages
...Dan. vii. 10 ; Matt. xxvi. 53 ; Heb. xii. 22 ; Luke ii. 13. * Matt. vi. 10. * if Matt, xviii. 10. ' How oft do they their silver bowers leave, ' To come...'And their bright squadrons round about us plant, men 1 : in the countenance of whose nature, looking down- BOOK I. ward, they behold themselves beneath... | |
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O th' exceeding grace Of highest God ! that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe. " How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come... 
